Patents by Inventor Michel Louis Francis Grech

Michel Louis Francis Grech has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and Apparatus for Instant Messaging
    Publication number: 20080263158
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for instant messaging capable of an automatic response mode with enhanced reply options. In the automatic response mode, upon receiving a message from a sender, a terminal selects a reply message from a plurality of messages in accordance with at least one predetermined criterion, and responds to the sender with the selected reply message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Carlos del Cacho, Michel Louis Francis Grech, Kumar Venkata Vemuri
  • Method of setting up an application initiated call to a mobile station within a CAMEL network, and a telecommunications system comprising a CAMEL network
    Patent number: 7050811
    Abstract: A method is provided of setting up a call connection to a mobile station operative to communicate with a Customised Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) telecommunications network. The call is initiated by an Open Service Architecture (OSA) application, which causes a message to be produced which indicates to the network that the mobile station is now available to make a ring back call connection. The network setting up the call connection in response to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Louis Francis Grech, Musa Unmehopa
  • Method of, and system for, providing an automated information service from an application programming interface API application to a mobile user terminal
    Publication number: 20040072555
    Abstract: A method is provided of providing an automated information service from an Application Programming Interface API application to a mobile user terminal away from its home network roaming into another network in a system for mobile telecommunications. The method includes an automated information service providing-means in the network into which the mobile user terminal has roamed acting as a proxy for an automated information service providing-means in the home network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Michel Louis Francis Grech, Musa Raoul Unmehopa
  • Method of setting up an application initiated call to a mobile station within a CAMEL network, and a telecommunications system comprising a CAMEL network
    Publication number: 20040067781
    Abstract: A method is provided of setting up a call connection to a mobile station operative to communicate with a Customised Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) telecommunications network. The call is initiated by an Open Service Architecture (OSA) application, which causes a message to be produced which indicates to the network that the mobile station is now available to make a ring back call connection. The network setting up the call connection in response to the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Michel Louis Francis Grech, Musa Unmehopa
  • Providing a camel based service to a subscriber terminal in a win network and vice versa
    Publication number: 20030095566
    Abstract: An interface (LEM) is provided operative to provide a CAMEL based service to a subscriber terminal in a WIN network. The interface causes the CAMEL based service to appear to the WIN network as an Application in accordance with the Open Service Access (OSA) standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Roger L. Bunting, Michel Louis Francis Grech, Elizabeth Ann Kidwell, Musa Unmehopa
  • Mobile data networks
    Publication number: 20020174212
    Abstract: A GPRS telecommunications system, comprising a plurality of networks, at least one of the networks being a home network for a subscriber associated with a mobile terminal; a node maintaining data relating to a service; one or more gateway nodes in networks other than the home networks and operated by the home network service provider, and means for enabling said gateway nodes to interact with the service data maintaining node to provide them with data and/or instructions concerning the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Alessio Casati, Michel Louis Francis Grech